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Bathed in self-conscious cool,Confidence is a heist caper in which the heist is unimportant. As you might expect fromGlengarry Glen Ross director James Foley, this pulpy concoction is more interested in giving good actors a lot of hip, salty dialogue as they scheme their way to the royal scam. It's a poor man'sOcean's Eleven, just as enjoyable in its own way, beginning when con artist Jake (Edward Burns) discovers he's accidentally stolen from an eccentric crime boss (Dustin Hoffman, oozing threat in a fine character turn). Promising to make amends by pulling the biggest con of his career, Jake adds a feisty pickpocket (Rachel Weisz) to his crew, which includes scene-stealer Paul Giammatti and Andy Garcia as a disheveled FBI agent (or is he?). With a cast like this you can't go wrong, butConfidence cons itself into thinking it's original, while Burns's abundant voice-overs state the obvious and plot twists unfold with minimal surprise. It hardly matters;Confidence may be derivative, but it's still recommendable.--Jeff Shannon
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The con is...on you! I liked Ed Burns "Sidewalks of NY" more than this one. Yet Confidence is the kind of movie you'd watch on a boring sunday afternoon, when there's nothing good on TV. It wants to be smart, but doesn gets there. The writing is poor, and motivations of the main characters are weak. Would you run a scam operation from your own home? They use their place to do cons, thinking the guy will be too scared to come back!!! dusting Hoffman doesn't sell it as a mafioso, but with such bad writing, he did what he could. This one movie that should have never been done. With so many better con movies out there like Matchstickmen, Ocean's Eleven and the like, we didn't need Confidence. Christopher Walken's "Scam" with Lorraine Bracco (from the Sopranos) is a much enjoyable and better movie than this one. At least in Scam there's chemistry between the leads, and strong motivations for their actions.A goodish sting On the DVD case, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone calls it "One sweet, sexy sting of a movie!" We agree.
Dustin Hoffman is perfectly cast as a weirdly mobbish type, with some serious sexual hangups. Andy Garcia is actually the most likeable character I've ever seen him play. And Rachel Weisz is, as usual, beautiful and sensual and sassy. (See her in "The Mummy" and its sequel with Brendan Frazer. Really sweet and wonderful there!)
All in all it's not quite -- but I have to say nearing it -- the Robert Redford/Paul Newman "The Sting," but it certainly is a fun sting to watch. We think it will be better the second time around, so we're looking forward to watching it again.Predictable! As soon as you see the first con you know that the rest of the movie will be full of them, and that what seems obvious will be anything but. That has become almost a cliché for this genre. The smooth talking leader, the nerdy number two man, the seemingly dumb operative and, of course, the lovely young woman.
A crass version of an updated cross between Mission Impossible and The Sting without the sophistication. The Dustin Hoffman character was also a cliché, a disgusting inhuman type. It was impossible to feel anything for any of these people, and the story and progress of the movie left me cold. A mindless attempt at entertainment at best.
